Daffy's Downfall, planted by Rubaduc 7/27/02
My first plant is located in the DEP Farmington Headquarters
property
on Rt. 6 in Farmington. Look for Smokey Bear 0.4mi west of New Britain
Ave or 0.7 mi east of Rt 177. During the week parking's allowed inside
the gate from 8am-3pm, on weekends there is limited parking at the
gate.
Easy hike can be done in an hour or less, good for children.
Head for the pond and enter white blazed trail at the empty map
holder. Follow white blazes' except where there are brown trail signs
with arrows, this is a loop hike an the arrows will guide you. At the
north end of the pond head east over a wooden bridge and in little
while
the trail goes north again on an old woods road. You'll soon come to
the
beginning of the loop, follow the brown trail sign east up a small
hill
(this is as strenuous as it gets). You'll notice numbers on the trees
to
correspond with the interpretive map. Just before #8 you'll pass
through
a very small pine cathedral and might run into a patch of poison ivy
on
the trail, I bushwhacked a bit to be safe and then the trail goes down
hill. At sign #9 follow the trail sign to the right and you'll come
into
a meadow with a flagpole on your right and a picnic table straight
ahead.
Standing with your back to #10 you'll see a large pine to the east
with
fallen, rotted logs underneath. Tucked between two of these logs you
should find Daffy, be sure to poke with a stick to get rid of
unwelcome
visitors. Log in on the bench or picnic table and re-hide carefully.
Continue on white to another left trail sign and another wooden bench
then another trail sign on the right which puts you back on the woods
road and soon you pass the backside of the trail sign where you began
the
loop. Continue on the white for one more white trail sign and back to
your car. Thank you for stopping by.